Featured Projects

An on-line catalog of conservation projects

Keystone Conservation Trust has established the Legacy Property fund to raise critically needed funds for key land preservation and restoration projects undertaken by non-profit conservation organizations. On an ongoing basis, we will feature exemplary land, water, habitat, or community resource projects of the regions conservation organizations. Each conservation project will be screened and pre-approved by KCT. Donors may choose to contribute to one or more specific projects or allow KCT to direct their contributions where there is the greatest urgency. Click on a link below to learn more about these important conservation projects:

Situated within one of the most critically important flyways in eastern North
America, Waggoner’s Gap provides one of the finest hawk watching
opportunities anywhere. To help visitors better appreciate and enjoy this
globally significant migration [+] more...

The extensive unfragmented forest lands in southeastern Berks County provide
an important but threatened reserve for native flora, essential breeding areas
for declining songbirds, and important cover for exceptional value watersheds.
This Big Woods area [+] more...

A pocket of ecological treasures, the Scotia Barrens is an exceptional
ecosystem of rare community types. Many of the wildlife species which call
the Scotia Barrens home would disappear from the region if the barrens [+] more...

A top priority area of the Highlands Coalition as well as Lancaster County
Conservancy, the Welsh Mountains are one of Lancaster County's few remaining
natural areas. An area of wooded slopes and rock outcroppings, this [+] more...

Widely recognized in federal, state, and county conservation plans, Oley
Hills has been designated a Critical Treasure by the Highlands Coalition. Its
large acreages of undisturbed forests and pristine watersheds make it an
important ecological [+] more...

High quality natural areas for preservation and public recreation in heavily
developed southeastern Pennsylvania are scarce and increasingly precious. The
Paper Mill Road Woods project is critically important for this reason. The
forest, consisting of [+] more...

Rolling piedmont hills, large hayfields, a small stream and mature woodlands
which are part of the larger Stateline Woods - this property offers a richly
textured landscape to all who visit. This project will create [+] more...

The mission of the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association is to protect the
quality and beauty of the Wissahickon Creek and to enhance life in the
watershed. Over the past 50 years, WVWA has protected more [+] more...